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Likely not. What will be more interesting is if post production people who monitor and/or post anonymously on sites like the Trek BBS pay attention to such shit and will modify the image before the film goes to final print.

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Re: What's with all the Union Jacks in the trailer?

DarthTom wrote:

Franklin wrote:

Or not.

Likely not. What will be more interesting is if post production people who monitor and/or post anonymously on sites like the Trek BBS pay attention to such shit and will modify the image before the film goes to final print.

..and charge the production an extra $10,000 dollars for doing it.

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I was in Rome at the end of 2012, and pretty much every Italian government building I passed had both the Italian flag and the EU flag, indicating that there was both a national government and a larger union of member states. So it seems very appropriate that the trailer featured a building with both the UK flag and the UFP flag. If anything, it might've been nice to also see a United Earth flag, but it's just a 30 second bit of video, how much can you really fit in?

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Why wouldn't Britain still exist? The land is still there and people live there. Once the Federation comes into being, it isn't like they renamed everything. The United States isn't Land Zone Gamma, it's the United States. Kirk says that he's from Iowa, showing that the individual states still exist and McCoy talked about Georgia a few times. If they still exist in some form, then other countries would as well. The Earth government probably has standard laws for the whole planet, but the individual countries probably work similarly to the EU or how the states in United States work. Basically each runs itself in a limited fashion with certain aspects left to the Earth government. They probably keep the flags as a symbolic or historic thing.

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